Donald Trump’s order to change the name of the highest mountain in the United States faced pushback Friday from members of his own party.

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    The real reason he’s doing it is bc Obama changed it to Denali from McKinley

    The motion, which earlier cleared the lower chamber by a sizable majority, notes that state lawmakers called for the mountain to be known by its Indigenous name as far back as 1975.

    Four decades later, then-president Barack Obama officially recognized that push and dropped the moniker Mount McKinley, which had been the peak’s official name since 1917.

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    Alaska’s Republican-dominated senate voted overwhelmingly against his plan to ditch the Indigenous name Denali for the huge peak, which Trump has rechristened Mount McKinley.

    Waiting for him to rename DC because Colombia is south American or something.